Israeli women

"I knew that if he managed to break in - that would be the end of me, that there was a possibility that I would end my life here or be assaulted," reporter Almaz Mangisto wrote on Saturday.

The petition was filed in response to the repeated vandalism of a photo of Holocaust survivor Peggy Parnes, which is displayed in Safra Square, home to Jerusalem's municipal offices.

Norway came first, followed by Finland, Iceland, the UK and then Germany. The United States was 48th, and Pakistan was last.

This policy, shaped over the years primarily by men who, on behalf of all of us, adopted militaristically tainted decisions that ignored most other aspects of life here.

Israeli women’s soccer is slowly developing, but unlike in America and Europe where there are thousands of girls’ teams, in Israel there is still a “stigma” that soccer isn’t for girls.

First place in the hackathon was won by a team who designed technology that uses vision tech to detect when an elderly person falls.

For some women in Israel today divorce seems like an impossible reality, as religious and legal barriers stretch before them every step of the way. One organization seems determined to change that.

Two weeks ahead of elections, candidates pledge change while Labor leader Merav Michaeli remains the only woman chairing a political party.

While it’s true that women are capable of achieving almost anything in Israel, it’s also true that they often don’t. Why? Is it because they simply don’t want to? Or are there other factors at play?

Despite the decrease of certain crimes reported in the Knesset publication, the Association of Rape Crisis in Israel reported an increase in sex offense reports.